Senior Backend Engineer - Time Lifecycle Platform

Justworks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 188,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Justworks in New York City is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Time Lifecycle to unify time tracking, leave management, scheduling, and project tracking across PEO, ASO, and EOR into a single platform. You will build a compliance engine for overtime and labor rules across 50+ jurisdictions, while enabling native leave state, payroll pause, and proration support.

The role focuses on backend systems, collaborating with product managers, designers and other engineers, using Go, RoR and

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of professional hands-on experience in software development.
• Expertise in backend systems and service-oriented architectures.
• Strong object-oriented design and coding skills.
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience modeling complex real-world problems with robust data models.
• Experience supporting other engineers and acting as a tech lead.
• Experience using Agile/Scrum in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in a high-growth environment with deadlines and milestones.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement APIs, systems integrations and backend services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build a next-generation platform.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship and knowledge-sharing.
• Establish observability and monitoring as core principles.
• Ensure data security and proper data compartmentalization.

Skills

Backend systems

OO design

Distributed systems

Mentorship

Tools

Go

Ruby on Rails

Javascript

Kafka

GraphQL

Apollo

Redis

Kubernetes

Docker

CircleCI

DataDog

AWS

Job description

Justworks in New York City is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Time Lifecycle to unify time tracking, leave management, scheduling, and project tracking across PEO, ASO, and EOR into a single platform. You will build a compliance engine for overtime and labor rules across 50+ jurisdictions, while enabling native leave state, payroll pause, and proration support.

The role focuses on backend systems, collaborating with product managers, designers and other engineers, using Go, RoR and